(140916) -- GENEVA, Sept. 16, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 9, 2014, show the Solar Impulse 2 at its home base in Payerne, Switzerland. A new upgraded Swiss-made solar aircraft is poised to take the first round-the-world solar flight, without any fuel, in 2015. The global flight is scheduled to start in March 2015 form the Gulf area. The single-seat aircraft will fly, in order, over the Arabian Sea, India, Burma, China, the Pacific Ocean, the United States, the Atlantic Ocean and Southern Europe or North Africa before closing the loop by returning to the departure point. (Xinhua/Zhang
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(140916) -- GENEVA, Sept. 16, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 9, 2014, show the Solar Impulse 2 at its home base in Payerne, Switzerland. A new upgraded Swiss-made solar aircraft is poised to take the first round-the-world solar flight, without any fuel, in 2015. The global flight is scheduled to start in March 2015 form the Gulf area. The single-seat aircraft will fly, in order, over the Arabian Sea, India, Burma, China, the Pacific Ocean, the United States, the Atlantic Ocean and Southern Europe or North Africa before closing the loop by returning to the departure point. (Xinhua/Zhang Miao) (lmz)